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Honestly, it's more conceivable than not that one day, perhaps in our lifetimes, we'll have the technology to alter humans beings at the level of DNA, at which point the differences between a "person" and a "transperson" become impenetrably metaphysical and abstract, even for some treatises on philosophy.
Science may never advance to that stage. Or, transsexualism could simply be a passing trend that never reappears to cause controversy; an unusual manifestation of what is otherwise a wildly overstated human desire for self-expression. I personally doubt both of these claims, but I guess we'll see.
Regardless, issues that are irresolvable by debate are resolved one way or another. A very clever observation I once heard was this: if philosophers can't decide an answer to a question, engineers and investors will. That's a succinct characterization of our own time whether or not it continues to be the case.
Last edited by xerx; 02-15-2021 at 05:38 AM.
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